"SHE believes in God who is one, all-powerful, and just," said Petronius, when he found himself again in the litter with Vinicius.

"If her God is all-powerful, He controls life and death; and if He is just, He sends death justly.

Why, then, does Pomponia wear mourning for Julius?
In mourning for Julius she blames her God.

I must repeat this reasoning to our Bronzebeard, the monkey, since I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates.

As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.